The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-30

Stase OF tho Winter aud Movemonts OF til.
Boats.
The G. W. Bachelor, for Pittsburgh,
and the Courier, for Parkersburg, gro thi1
morning packets.
The W. N. Chancellor passed down ycs.
terday en- route for Charleston, having on
board about all the freight she wanted.
Lieutenant Cololonel W. Z. Merrill nd.
vortises for proposals. for towing the
dredges Ohio and Oswego during the
coming season.
Tho Resolute, Of Gray's Iron Line,
passed up at duck laat night with three
empty model -barges in tow. AZ usual.
she vas making good time.
The Scotia is due down at. an early hour
this morning, but she will probable be
late, as,she passed up late, Thursday having
been detained by a big trip that almost
put her guards under water.
Capt. Vanhook will command the Gen.
eral Rucker in the Pittsburgh and st. Louis
trade. Captain Vanhook is On old Pittg.
bursher, but has been making st. Louis
his base OF operations for q number OF
years.
The river is still falling at this point,
The marks last night indicated a dcpth
in the channel Of nine feet and five inches,
The reports from above we're to the effect
that at nearly all points the rivers were
rising, the result Of the rains Of the pre.
vious forty.eight hours.
The East Liverpool pottery manuiact.
urers have already responded to the in.
crease in rates and the raising Of the class.
ifcstion Of their goods by the railroads by
shipping their goods by river. Alsree lot
has been cent by steamboat down the Ohio
to st. Louis and thence up tho Mississippi
to st. Paul, thus depriving the railroads OF
this business altogether.
Capt. Charlie Muhlsman proposes to
make himself more popular than ever, by
once more Offering, during the coming
aeason, cheap exculeion rates to parties Of
i've or more who desire to make the round
trip to Cincinnati. A round trim means
one week Of pleasure in viewing sorne al
tho finest scenery in this country, seeing
the sights in the Paris OF America ana
living well on the largest steamer that
comes into this port.
The Louis a. Shirley arrived last even
ing from CINCINNATI with q splendid trim
on board. She will leave hero on her re-.
turn trip TO that port At 3 o'clock thia al
ternoon. The Shirley is d wsll appointed
steamer In every respect, ia commanded
by q very clever set OF officials. and has
made herself quito popular all along the
river by the care and diligence shs has
displayed in transporting consipnments.
and the attention her officers have shown
towards passengers SO we'll as shlppors.
Commencing on Monday morning, the
Abner O'Nesl will enter the trade DO.
tween here and Pittsburgh, and continue
in it rs long as it will pay and the STAGE Of
water will permit. She will run on alter
nate days with tho o. W. Bachelor, which
has been making money in the trade for
q long time past. Under the proyisions
the intel -State Commerce bill, ths river
business offered between here and Pitts.
bursh has increased so that tho Bachelor
Ia not able to handle it It is buainess that
formerly sent by rail exclusively.
The Abner's place in the steuhenville
trade, which che and her predecessors
have filled for 80 many long years, and
where. they have made good money for the
ownsrs, will be filled for the present by a
packet to be leased by the Abner's own.
,rs.. $3.50 lIp